Sejal Chaurasia

USA produces around 1 lakh Engineers per year for a $ 16 Trillion Economy.   India produces 15 lakhs Engineers for a $ 2 Trillion Economy.  The earlier mass recruiting sector was Manufacturing. It used to recruit from the core branches like Electrical Mechanical, Civil etc. But, Manufacturing is relatively stagnant at 17% of the GDP. So the core branch placements have become very difficult.  The more recent mass recruiter was the IT sector. It grew from scratch to almost 5% of the GDP in a short time. IT Employed millions of engineers.  Now, IT is also saturating.  If you look at the sectoral composition of Indian economy, most of the sectors do not need engineers. Tourism is 10% of the GDP, does not require engineers. Financial sector, Trade, Hotels and Restaurants do not require engineers. Requirement of engineers in Health, education, Agriculture is also negligible.  Demand is low while supply is high. Over and above this, skill level of an...

Achievements We are the only nation in the world which gave every adult the right to vote from its first day. In the US, the world’s second largest democracy this right was given more than 150 years after their independence. We have the most number of languages spoken in any one nation; 29 languages are spoken in India, by more than one million people each. Canada almost broke up into two in 1960s because of tension between English and French. Largest number of elected women (panchayats, etc.) Developed nuclear technology indigenously under world boycott and lowest cost producer of nuclear energy ($ 1700 per kilowatt). World’s largest producer of two-wheelers and the lowest cost car (Nano). Largest milk producer (100m tones). Largest importer of gold (700 tones) and 90 per cent of all diamonds polished and processed here.        World’s third largest railway network. Highest No. of Test and ODI centuries and winner of cricket World Cup twice. Large...